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David R. Beckert, MD (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, United States

Dr. Beckert is a graduate of Penn State University, earning a BS in Biology with Honors in 2002. He completed his MD from the University of Virginia in 2006. He then came to the Medical University of South Carolina, where he completed his general psychiatry residency training in 2010. He served as a Chief Resident in his senior year, and was awarded the Dr. Henry P. and M. Page Durkee Laughlin Foundation Award, a peer selected award, in recognition of professional achievement, dedication, and scholarship. Following his residency, he joined the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina as an Assistant Professor, where he is currently employed.
Dr. Beckert has been involved in several areas of interest throughout his medical schooling, residency education, and current faculty appointment. He has been very active in education, supervising both medical students and residents on clinical rotations, teaching medical students in small groups, and serving as the Associate Program Director for the Psychiatry Residency Training Program as well as the Co-director of the combined Psychiatry and Neurology dual Residency Training Program. He has been involved in various aspects of clinical work as well, covering adult inpatient services, consult-liaison and emergency services, and adult outpatient services. The settings for his clinical work included the Medical University of South Carolina Institute of Psychiatry, the MUSC Counseling and Psychological Services center, the Charleston-Dorchester County Community Mental Health Center, the National Crime Victims center, and the Colleton Medical Center. Exposure and involvement in this unique mix of settings helps Dr. Beckert play an active role in inter-agency cooperation and gain experience in a variety of roles. This mix also allows him to provide excellent clinical care to a wide variety of patients, ranging from students affected with mental illness to clients in the local community who are severely and persistently mentally ill. More recently he has been one of two primary attending physicians leading the Psychiatry Consult-liaison Service at MUSC, which covers three medical/surgical hospitals and sees a high volume of medically and surgically complex patients who have overlapping psychiatric as well as substance use disorder needs.
Dr. Beckert is also an active member of the American Psychiatric Association. He joined this organization as a member when he was a medical student, maintaining membership through residency and into his early career professional development, and being named a Fellow of the APA in his mid-career. He also participates in the local Low Country South Carolina chapter, currently serving as chapter President. He has experience in several leadership roles within this organization, including serviing as the South Carolina representative to the national Assembly of the APA, being on the executive board and serving as President of the South Carolina District Branch in 2016, and more recently being a member of the Scientific Program Committee for the APA Annual Meeting for the last few years. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Disasters and Terrorism Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, and has helped organize and co-author several chapters in “Disaster Psychiatry: Readiness, Evaluation, and Treatment”, published in 2011. He has presented posters and workshops at various national conferences and meetings throughout his experience as a medical student, resident, and mid-career psychiatrist. His most recent presentations have taken place on a local level at MUSC Psychiatry Grand Rounds, at the state level as a plenary speaker at the South Carolina Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, and nationally as a workshop participant at the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training Annual Meeting as well as at the American Psychiatric Association’s Annual Meeting.

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